matjoeman

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I agree but at least the PoS cryptocurrencies seem to have solved the energy use problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

By this argument any website is wasteful. There's always a "better thing".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Google is a tech company.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It's always only going to be useful for things like buying drugs, cases where you want to skirt regulation or you really want privacy. Which is fine. It can have it's niche. Pretending it was ever going to be more than that was a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

They have rescinded this policy according to the article.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (5 children)

They can. It's in the TOS when you make your account. They own everything you post to the site.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

That feels like time well spent.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Right but I assume the parent meant that the AI could guess what the original function and variable names were based on the code, and may be even clean the code up by deoptimizing it too.

Trying to make sense of decompiled code is pretty hard for any large code base.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

As long as there's enough for your remaining lifetime that's fine. We don't have to worry about anyone else's lifetime after that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (11 children)

All that energy for bitcoin only supports 7 tx/s. Digital dollar payments do tens if not hundres of thousands per second.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

It was also useful when the page had changed inbetween google indexing it and now, so if you loaded the page and couldn't find the text you were searching for because it was deleted, you could find it on the cached page.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Because all the shops, museums, restaurants, music venues, and public transit hubs are there?

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